Jeremiah

 

The call of Jeremiah

Jeremiah 1:1-19

God knew you before you were born

Jeremiah 1:5

You’re qualified for God’s work

Jeremiah 1:6-8

God will rescue you

Jeremiah 1:8

Spread God’s word

Jeremiah 1:10

Vision of God’s judgment

Jeremiah 1:11-14

Be ready to face conflict with God’s presence

Jeremiah 1:14-19

Don’t worship idols

Jeremiah 1:16

Israel forsakes God

Jeremiah 2:1-37; 3:1-5

Don’t forget God

Jeremiah 2:2

Eager at first

Jeremiah 2:3

Learn from history

Jeremiah 2:4-8

Contrast of loyalty

Jeremiah 2:10-12

Broken cisterns

Jeremiah 2:13

Bringing things onto yourself

Jeremiah 2:16-19

Stain of sin

Jeremiah 2:22

Running wild to sin

Jeremiah 2:23-29

Being a prophet can be dangerous

Jeremiah 2:30

Don’t forget God

Jeremiah 2:31-32

Don’t form empty alliances

Jeremiah 2:36

Another example of God’s mercy

Jeremiah 3:1

Judah ran to idolatry

Jeremiah 3:2

Don’t downplay sins

Jeremiah 3:4-5

Unfaithful Israel

Jeremiah 3:6-25; 4:1-4

Truthfully acknowledge your guilt

Jeremiah 3:11-13

A chance to repent

Jeremiah 3:12-18

God gives us leaders to follow Him

Jeremiah 3:15

A time where the Ark of the Covenant won’t be needed

Jeremiah 3:16-18

Going back to God

Jeremiah 3:22-25

Plow your ground

Jeremiah 4:3

Disaster from the north

Jeremiah 4:5-31

Attack coming from Nabopolassar & Nebuchadnezzar II

Jeremiah 4:6-7

Expressing feelings of sorrow & confusion to God

Jeremiah 4:10

Danites being 1st to see disaster

Jeremiah 4:15

Prophecy of destruction & judgment of all sinners

Jeremiah 4:19-31

Using the wrong skills

Jeremiah 4:22

The faithful are spared

Jeremiah 4:27

Not one is upright

Jeremiah 5:1-31

Find someone who is upright

Jeremiah 5:1

Resisting truth

Jeremiah 5:3

Poor, foolish and ignorant from ineffective leadership

Jeremiah 5:4-5

Don’t mislead your kids

Jeremiah 5:7

Babylon will punish Judah

Jeremiah 5:15

Don’t refuse God’s word

Jeremiah 5:21

You better fear God!

Jeremiah 5:22-24

Take care of the poor

Jeremiah 5:28-29

Jerusalem under siege

Jeremiah 6:1-30

Time to go!

Jeremiah 6:1

Shepherds – leaders; flocks – troops

Jeremiah 6:3

Babylon will continue to attack until nothing is left

Jeremiah 6:9

People offended by God’s word

Jeremiah 6:10

Ignoring the truth

Jeremiah 6:14

Choose God’s path

Jeremiah 6:16

God won’t accept pagan offerings

Jeremiah 6:20

Purify the impurities in your life

Jeremiah 6:29-30

False religion is worthless

Jeremiah 7:1-29

Reform your ways & action

Jeremiah 7:2-3

Attending church for the wrong reasons

Jeremiah 7:9-11

Jesus quoted this while clearing the Temple

Jeremiah 7:11

An example made at Shiloh

Jeremiah 7:11-12

Ephraim – “Israel”

Jeremiah 7:15

A pagan goddess called “the Queen of Heaven”

Jeremiah 7:18

You are hurting yourself

Jeremiah 7:19

Obey God and you will be His people

Jeremiah 7:21-23

God sent many prophets

Jeremiah 7:25

The Valley of Slaughter

Jeremiah 7:30-34; 8:1-3

Slaughter becomes slaughtered

Jeremiah 7:31-32

Dead idol followers will receive their reward

Jeremiah 8:1-2

Sin & Punishment

Jeremiah 8:4-22; 9:1-26

“Check yourself before your wreck yourself”

Jeremiah 8:4-6

Jeremiah pleads to God

Jeremiah 8:18

Heartbroken from dying world

Jeremiah 8:20-22

Conflicting emotions towards others

Jeremiah 9:1-6

Boast on God only

Jeremiah 9:23-24

Uncircumcised in the heart

Jeremiah 9:25-26

God & idols

Jeremiah 10:1-16

Trust the Creator, not the created

Jeremiah 10:2-3, 8

Coming destruction

Jeremiah 10:17-22

Jeremiah’s prayer

Jeremiah 10:23-25

The Covenant is broken

Jeremiah 11:1-17

Praying too late

Jeremiah 11:14

Plot against Jeremiah

Jeremiah 11:18-23

Don’t run & hide

Jeremiah 11:18-23

Jeremiah’s complaint

Jeremiah 12:1-4

God’s answer

Jeremiah 12:5-17

God’s answers aren’t always pleasant

Jeremiah 12:5-6

A linen belt (lesson of pride)

Jeremiah 13:1-11

Wineskins

Jeremiah 13:12-14

Drunkenness will happen

Jeremiah 13:13

Threat of captivity

Jeremiah 13:15-27

Don’t be arrogant

Jeremiah 13:15

Jehoaichin & Nehushta will surrender

Jeremiah 13:18

Judah will be in exile

Jeremiah 13:19

People who cannot change

Jeremiah 13:23

Drought, famine and sword

Jeremiah 14:1-22; 15:1-21

Don’t encourage false prophets

Jeremiah 14:14

Action speaks louder than words

Jeremiah 14:19-22

Intercession won’t help in this case

Jeremiah 15:1

Knowingly follow corrupt leaders bring doom

Jeremiah 15:3-4

Feeling like the whole world is against you

Jeremiah 15:10

Losing focus & being restored

Jeremiah 15:17-21

Day of disaster

Jeremiah 16:1-21; 17:1-18

So many will die to where no one can mourn

Jeremiah 16:5-13

God will deliver the people from exile

Jeremiah 16:14-15

You can’t hide from God

Jeremiah 16:17

God is strength, fortress and refuge

Jeremiah 16:19

Sin engraved on the hearts of Judah

Jeremiah 17:1

Strength in man vs. strength in God

Jeremiah 17:5-8

A matter of the heart to sin or not

Jeremiah 17:9-10

Gaining riches unjustly will leave you as a fool

Jeremiah 17:11

Crying out to God

Jeremiah 17:12-18

Keeping the Sabbath holy

Jeremiah 17:19-27

At the Potter’s House

Jeremiah 18:1-23; 19:1-15

Allow God to reshape you

Jeremiah 18:6

Don’t be stubborn toward God

Jeremiah 18:12

Facing foolish criticism

Jeremiah 18:18

The garbage dump of Jerusalem

Jeremiah 19:6

Food was so scarce to where people became cannibals

Jeremiah 19:7-13

Jeremiah & Pashhur

Jeremiah 20:1-6

Being a coward under truth

Jeremiah 20:1-3

Jeremiah’s complaint

Jeremiah 20:7-18

Can’t keep quiet of God’s word

Jeremiah 20:9

God rejects Zedekiah’s request

Jeremiah 21:1-14

A different Pashhur

Jeremiah 21:1

Seeking God too late

Jeremiah 21:2

Judgment against evil kings

Jeremiah 22:1-30

Obedience is mandatory

Jeremiah 22:3

Cry only for the exiled king

Jeremiah 22:10-12

You can’t inherit faith

Jeremiah 22:15-16

Don’t be hardheaded and hardhearted

Jeremiah 22:21

A worthless signet ring

Jeremiah 22:24-25

Jehoachin’s family won’t be kings

Jeremiah 22:30

The righteous branch

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Accountable leadership

Jeremiah 23:1-4

The coming Messiah

Jeremiah 23:5-6

Lying prophets

Jeremiah 23:9-32

False prophets

Jeremiah 23:9-14

Contrasting fake prophets with Sodom & Gomorrah

Jeremiah 23:14

Understood after destruction

Jeremiah 23:20

False oracles and false prophets

Jeremiah 23:33-40

Walk the walk and talk the talk

Jeremiah 23:28

Two baskets of figs

Jeremiah 24:1-10

Good and bad figs

Jeremiah 24:2-10

God’s care during tough times

Jeremiah 24:6

Seventy years of captivity

Jeremiah 25:1-14

Preaching for twenty three years

Jeremiah 25:2-6

The cup of God’s wrath

Jeremiah 25:15-38

Jeremiah threatened with death

Jeremiah 26:1-24

Don’t omit any of God’s word

Jeremiah 26:2

Contrasting destruction of Shiloh to Jerusalem

Jeremiah 26:2-9

Jeremiah labeled as a traitor

Jeremiah 26:11

Reflecting on words spoken from prophet Micah

Jeremiah 26:17-19

Reflecting on words spoken from prophet Uriah

Jeremiah 26:20-23

Judah to serve Nebuchadnezzar

Jeremiah 27:1-22

God can choose anyone to do His will

Jeremiah 27:5-6

Zedekiah is in a tough spot

Jeremiah 27:12-18

Articles of the Temple are taken away

Jeremiah 27:19-22

The false prophet Hananiah

Jeremiah 28:1-17

False prediction of two years

Jeremiah 28:3

Outline of a true prophet

Jeremiah 28:8-9

A letter to the exiles

Jeremiah 29:1-23

Moving on during difficult times

Jeremiah 29:4-7

A seventy year sentence in Babylon

Jeremiah 29:10

A bright future with God

Jeremiah 29:11

God hasn’t forgotten about you

Jeremiah 29:12-14

Seek God with all your heart

Jeremiah 29:13

False prophets face death

Jeremiah 29:21

Message to Shemaiah

Jeremiah 29:24-32

Restoration of Israel

Jeremiah 30:1-24; 31:1-40

Prophecy of the Messiah

Jeremiah 30:8-9

Allow God to cure you from the disease of sin

Jeremiah 30:12-13,17

Evaluation of punishment

Jeremiah 30:15

Jerusalem will be rebuilt

Jeremiah 30:18

Restoration with a Godly leader

Jeremiah 30:21

Restoration to all people

Jeremiah 31:1

God has loving kindness

Jeremiah 31:3

A symbol of life & prosperity

Jeremiah 31:14

Sadness from deportation

Jeremiah 31:15

“Beat my breast” – grief & mourning

Jeremiah 31:18-20

You’re accountable for your own sins

Jeremiah 31:29-30

God’s law on our minds & hearts

Jeremiah 31:33

God won’t reject Israel and nature

Jeremiah 31:35-37

Boundaries of restored Jerusalem

Jeremiah 31:38-40

Jeremiah buys a field

Jeremiah 32:1-44

Buying land that is captured by the enemy

Jeremiah 32:6-17

Prayer & thoughts to relieve doubts and fears

Jeremiah 32:17-25

Grotesque idol worship

Jeremiah 32:35

God will have His way

Jeremiah 32:36-42

Promise of restoration

Jeremiah 33:1-26

God will answer you

Jeremiah 33:3

The coming of Christ

Jeremiah 33:15-16

Christ fits the role

Jeremiah 33:18

Warning to Zedekiah

Jeremiah 34:1-7

Freedom for slaves

Jeremiah 34:8-22

Penalty for violating a contract

Jeremiah 34:18-20

The Recabites

Jeremiah 35:1-19

Recabites staying loyal

Jeremiah 35:13-17

Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah’s scroll

Jeremiah 36:1-32

Using a scroll

Jeremiah 36:2-4

A time of fasting

Jeremiah 36:9

You can reject God’s word but cannot destroy it

Jeremiah 36:10-32

Very few people stand up for God

Jeremiah 36:25

The mortal lineage from David ends

Jeremiah 36:30

Jeremiah in prison

Jeremiah 37:1-21

Seeking superficial religion

Jeremiah 37:2-3

No help from the Egyptians

Jeremiah 37:5

Caught between surrender & resistance

Jeremiah 37:17

Jeremiah thrown into a cistern

Jeremiah 38:1-13

A puppet king

Jeremiah 38:4-5,10

Jeremiah in the cistern

Jeremiah 38:6

God sends someone to help

Jeremiah 38:7-13

Zedekiah questions Jeremiah again

Jeremiah 38:14-28

Withholding God’s word

Jeremiah 38:24-27

The fall of Jerusalem

Jeremiah 39:1-18

A sure way to conquer

Jeremiah 39:10

Zedekiah meets disaster

Jeremiah 39:4-7

Babylonians liked Jeremiah

Jeremiah 39:11-14

God protects Ebed-Melech

Jeremiah 39:15-18

Jeremiah freed

Jeremiah 40:1-6

Acknowledging God but don’t know Him

Jeremiah 40:2-3

Jeremiah made a wise choice

Jeremiah 40:4-6

Gedaliah assassinated

Jeremiah 40:7-16; 41:1-15

Ignoring an assassination plot

Jeremiah 40:13 – 41:3

Ishmael is a savage

Jeremiah 41:4-10

Ishmael escapes

Jeremiah 41:15

Flight to Egypt

Jeremiah 41:16-18; 42:1-22; 43:1-13

A hypocritical visit

Jeremiah 42:1-6

Denying God’s truth again

Jeremiah 43:1-3

The people head to Egypt

Jeremiah 43:4-7

Prophesy of Egypt being conquered

Jeremiah 43:8-13

Disaster because of idolatry

Jeremiah 44:1-30

Don’t forget and/or refuse a lesson

Jeremiah 44:9-10

More confusion comes from leaving God

Jeremiah 44:15-18

Jeremiah goes off on the people

Jeremiah 44:24-30

A message to Baruch

Jeremiah 45:1-5

Focus on God, not what you are giving up

Jeremiah 45:5

A message about Egypt

Jeremiah 46:1-28

Egypt defeated

Jeremiah 46:2

More bark and less bite

Jeremiah 46:17

A message about the Philistines

Jeremiah 47:1-7

A message about Moab

Jeremiah 48:1-47

Chemosh – pagan god of Moab

Jeremiah 48:7

Symbolic act for destruction

Jeremiah 48:9

Another prophesy of destruction

Jeremiah 48:11-12

Finally realizing that the idol gods are worthless

Jeremiah 48:13

Moab condemned for its pride

Jeremiah 48:29

God has passion for everyone

Jeremiah 48:31

A message about Ammon

Jeremiah 49:1-6

Molech – a pagan god

Jeremiah 49:1

A message about Edom

Jeremiah 49:7-22

Teman – a wise town

Jeremiah 49:7

Dedan – a flourishing city far from Teman

Jeremiah 49:8

Pride led to Edom’s downfall

Jeremiah 49:16

A message about Damascus

Jeremiah 49:23-27

A message about Kedar & Hazor

Jeremiah 49:28-33

A message about Elam

Jeremiah 49:34-39

God sets his judgment & sovereignty in Elam

Jeremiah 49:38

A message about Babylon

Jeremiah 50:1-46; 51:1-64

Medo-Persia will conquer Babylon

Jeremiah 50:3

God will forgive Israel

Jeremiah 50:17-20

Pride will get Babylon also

Jeremiah 50:32

Babylon will be a wasteland

Jeremiah 50:39

Shocking news of a superpower’s downfall

Jeremiah 50:44-46

Babylon being blown away

Jeremiah 51:2

Idols are worthless

Jeremiah 51:17-19

Babylon being threshed

Jeremiah 51:33

Babylon being deprived of water

Jeremiah 51:36

Bel – pagan god of Babylon

Jeremiah 51:44

Highly disgraced

Jeremiah 51:51

Last words of Jeremiah

Jeremiah 51:59-64

The fall of Jerusalem

Jeremiah 52:1-30

Cubit – 17 to 20 inches long

Jeremiah 52:21

Jehoiachin released

Jeremiah 52:31-34

Kindness shown to Jehoiachin

Jeremiah 52:31

                                                              

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